Newscast
Media TEHRAN—Iranian
news agency, Mehr News Agency, is reporting that an F16 fighter jet engine
was stolen from an Israeli air force base, an act that has perplexed the
Israelis.

Tehran
reports:"Some unknown men took away the F16 engines in one of the air force bases by breaking into the base in central Occupied Lands.
In a similar report earlier, it was claimed that Iranian spies had tried
to hijack engines from the army fighters."

It
is indeed baffling as to how such a large object can be stolen from a military
base that has 24-hour surveillance. Whoever has this early Christmas
gift undoubtedly has plans to make copies of the F16s, since the engine
has the most valuable components necessary for such duplication.

Mehr
reports that according to
high-ranking officials of Israel Air Force, the hijackers received
assistance from army members inside the base, something made known after the
investigation, since it showed that no damage or cleft
was evident in the walls around the base.

Based on this,
sources emphasize that in the most probability the hijackers received
help from inside the base and were able to enter via the main gate,
adding that transferring the engines requires huge and modern devices,
something which improves the speculation that they did not enter the
base on foot.

Top Israel Air
Force officials deemed the incident dangerous, saying the perpetrators
had not yet been known and the motivation behind the act is not clear.